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Hot and sunny, very low water. Most of the rising fish were blowing bubbles and were grayling. This a very quiet and beautiful beat but fishing was tough.

4 Trout

This is a beautiful beat with good parking and easy access. In the first hour we both had fish. One Brown Trout and one Grayling, both to heavy nymphs and from deeper, swifter water. However, that early promise wasn’t sustained. The river was surprisingly low and running clear. The day was bright and warm. Plenty of insect life but very few fish were seen feeding. Between us we tried dries big and small, nymphs at various depths and teams of wets. During the rest of the day two more Trout were winkled out. One large Grayling and two further Trout wriggled off before being netted. A tough and rather frustrating day - but that’s fishing.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A glorious day on a lovely stretch of river that I have previously only fished for grayling, but there are plenty of fesity trout too. Quite a bit of fly life around in in the early afternoon and a few rising fish, so two or three caught on dries the rest on a GRHE nymph. River very low. Wading can be tricky in places. Rock is not slippery, just slabs of bedrock with awkward steps, but the strata helps create the deep gutters that stay cool in low flows so can't complain. The trout seem to like the gutters.

6 Trout

river level still decent, but fishes extremely spooky. 3 graylings ad 1 brown trout caught with French leader fishing the deepest pools, and 2 grayling caught on a dry around 11am. from then on no more fishes have been raising

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Very hot and very sunny with fish very hard to find. Thought I’d avoided a blank with a decent size grayling at the bottom of the beat but he/she dived under a ledge and broke me.

A very pretty beat. 6 fish, trout and grayling. All fish c. 1/2 lbs.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Hard day on the water, little about rise of fly wise. One WBT taken on a perdidon. But always a favourite beat!

1 Trout

Fished from 10-4, first fish was a fat and healthy 16” trout on a gold bead hares ear fished on the bottom , caught at around 11 o’clock. Nothing else happened until 2 when there was a hour long hatch of mixed flies, 10” trout to a size 16 para Adams, 3 grayling between 10-12” Klinkhammer Adams, Greenwells, Para Adams. Didn’t really matter what fly it was just had to get them to the right spot. Good to be fishing dries again and good not to be snowed in again!

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Despite the sunny day, I didn't catch anything. No activity at all. Fished from 10 till 2pm, and tried different set up with large variety of nymphs, nut no success at all. Amazing beat, I will come back in spring.

Did not manage to get there on the day to fish it, unfortunately, so nothing to report as no fishing done - my fault entirely ! I often seem to over-book beats in the eagerness and anticipation of getting around to fishing all of them but I hardly ever do ! Still at least I can console myself that it is all in a good cause and I am happy to support the Wye & Usk Foundation, this way.